The secret of happiness is something to do.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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